I really like the album, but I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the dry production that does it.

That's how it is for me as well.

It's not dry it's shit. Like the production of Sepultura's "Arise". Nothing can piss me off more than a record ruined by the shitty work of a sound engineer. The only thing that rocks is DV's vocals. Guitars are weak as hell and way too clean, drums sound triggered while they are not (über fail). Well, I should stop here...

Yet another sad chapter in the history of NWN post-teen scenesters/revisionists thinking their worthless opinion on classic albums is worth jackshit. The crimes of "insult to metal" and "lack of taste in metal" should be introduced and cunts like these banned and jailed for supreme utter faggotry. Fucking back to your Grifteskimprnlyng crap you bunch of pretentious bitches._________________Permabanned

Altars is my timeless classic, as is Abominations, but the one which gets the more spins at home is Covenant. Sheer brutality from start to finish. Plus that re-recording of "Angel of disease" fucking SHREDS. About that BatS production... I think you guys are very picky, the drums sound sterile as fuck but the rest of the album sounds well to my ears. Perfect milestone of dark and pounding death metal, even though the previously recorded versions of some songs were infinitely superior. Domination is such a bizarre and twisted masterpiece with some of the most inspired solos by Trey. FFTTF has some crushing riffs here and there plus "Invocation...", which is a heavy metal masterpiece and not that shitty wannabe-Manilla Road songs by Wimpthrone.

Then I think of all those bands which got inspired by such ageless slabs of death metal and I cannot help but bowing down to their mastery: Infamy, Coffin Texts, Sadistic Intent, all of them slay in my book.

I agree with pretty much everything you just said.
Also, add Mortem to that list.
All killer bands, indeed.

FFTTF is my numero uno because that´s with that album that I discovered MA.

But DOMINATION is so awesome... I dont get the hate it/scorn it gets. Such killer riffs... "Where The Slime Live" shreds, one of MA's gigs highlights everytime they play it live.
"Dawn Of the Angry" also über killer
"Hatework" is grand is so hateful indeed, fiercest MA vocals

Gateways needs to be repressed on wax ASAP, but I'm confident Earache will launch the multicolor wax carnival some day...

And I even really enjoy Heretic despite the plastic production. Some riffs there are fucking WICKED and filthy and deliciously jarring. Trey rules as always

There are probably records coming out with a "better" production everyday no matter which kind of production you prefer. But none of these are remotely as good as Blessed. There is no way music as good as Blessed could be ruined by bad production unless you couldn't hear what was going on, and that is obviously not the case.

The production on "Blessed are the sick" is polarizing since the day the album was released, no revisionism this time.

Well, in a way it still is. Back when "Blessed..." was coming out there was lots of great music, so it might make more sense to be picky back then. But today when the quality level of music coming out is so extremely low it seems idiotic to raise such a minor point when talking about something which actually is great. At least if you like even one album released these last 15 years I don't understand any kind of critical tone against Blessed cause no matter the production Blessed will probably still be better than whatever you can mention.

The point is that the production isn't bad at all, it's just different and it matches the darker, more sulphureous tone of the album. Flawless record and an absolute milestone of the genre, whoever disagrees is a faggot, period._________________Permabanned

I really like the album, but I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the dry production that does it.

That's how it is for me as well.

It's not dry it's shit. Like the production of Sepultura's "Arise". Nothing can piss me off more than a record ruined by the shitty work of a sound engineer. The only thing that rocks is DV's vocals. Guitars are weak as hell and way too clean, drums sound triggered while they are not (über fail). Well, I should stop here...

Yet another sad chapter in the history of NWN post-teen scenesters/revisionists thinking their worthless opinion on classic albums is worth jackshit. The crimes of "insult to metal" and "lack of taste in metal" should be introduced and cunts like these banned and jailed for supreme utter faggotry. Fucking back to your Grifteskimprnlyng crap you bunch of pretentious bitches.

Do you dipshits have any idea what the word "dry" means here, or is this just another happy funtime Italiofaggot bitchfest? It doesn't have an abundance of reverb. Past Morbid Angel (and some future stuff) did. It's a "dry production" compared to most of their other albums.

The production of Blessed fits perfectly to the dark mood that Trey and David wanted to create. Even David's vocals are more guttural here, more satanic and deep (vv. Unholy Blasphemies for an example).

I think Blessed Are The Sick it's the definitive death metal album, with all due respect to Altars and Covenant, Blessed teach how death metal is to be played.